About Mosuo funeral
Mosuo for the culture of Lugu Lake, which itself has a lot of thick and mysterious culture, of which the most mysterious and solemn funeral Moso.
Mosuo people do not birthday, their birthdays are all set at the Lunar New Year's Day; Mosuo people generally do not use the mechanism of modern marriage - marry, they still continue to go the old marriage customs, so they do not have wedding scene; So for a person as a representation of the end of the world to become the most solemn ritual - the funeral.
In this piece of the mysterious daughter of country, religion no small significance.
Here, two kinds of religions exist side by side people did not more common - the Daba Mosuo teaching and Tibetan Buddhism in a simultaneous occasion: Daba lead the way for the deceased, the deceased lama salvation, they are for a common The funeral service - Mosuo funeral.
Moso's funeral is generally known as Hi funeral, in Tibetan Buddhism, human life and the transmigration of the soul is constantly.
Mosuo people think that death is not the end of life but a life-relief, in the process of mourning throughout the funeral, the families of sad crying a short time, the rest of time seemed more relaxed, or even to laughing, and everybody expected it to leave the everyone's family can meet as soon as possible with the ancestors and in the afterlife ever better and more well-being and so they need a grand and a lively scene to release souls from purgatory.
With regard to the funeral Moso can be said that the whole process is quite complicated, and the coexistence of many other customs and cultures, will not start for the time being extended, in this are simply trying to introduce the relevant information on the process of Moso funeral.
In the shortest possible time after death, the deceased families would be informed by the village, after the village, each household must be notified to send a man went to his house to help, and to negotiate with the funeral arrangements. The male family members in Tibet baixiang boiled the water for the dead wood body wash, wash water is dead: men's 9 scoop, scoop female 7. Then binding the body, wash people dead and tied to the same properties and the dead, tied to the dead body is linen bundles of fetal-like, on a white bag inside to squat, hands cross-posted with the chest, leg bent knees feet close together, integrating where indicated, as originally bred in the womb, as in order to be reborn World, when the male corpse tied rope 9, female 7 rope; and then give the dead new ones clothes and shoes, the soles drilling, male abalone , F 7 holes in order to shake off the road in the afterlife when you gallop into the shoes of the sand; in a hole in the ear and nose and cast butter; the deceased's son or nephew of the deceased grandmother's house in the backyard to dig a garden one-meter square pit, the pit walls are coated with butter, and then tied up the dead into the pits good, finally sealed, and covered a gap at around the cast in order to isolate the air into the butter, the whole process does not to allow women to participate or watch.
In this everything finished, the family went to schools of their own religion, to invite monks counted lamasery funeral day, were put into a pit from the deceased to the funeral of the time from 10 days to two months, due to Lugu Lake are now engaged in tourism development, so buried in the ground is also relatively short time a lot.
The two-day funeral in general, the first day is has received notice of the deceased's family and friends around the village or in the field came from funerals, while the nearby villages will also send representatives to attend the funeral of funerals, organized funerals teams will have special clothing, horses and dancing people.
Attend funerals after a Yakou Each team will be blasting three times to inform the funeral welcome the team to show the location of their own team, and to greet the team at the funeral heard put guns back in order after three sound cannons placed in the Moso region The guns are all made of explosives, so the sound is very sound, so that can be heard throughout the Lugu Lake are basically.
A person's funeral completely affected the entire village, in accordance with traditional customs and rules, are also busy for the whole village together, and everyone should be a feminist zaiyang come up with the best wine, to make the best dishes, a large banquet , empty out the rooms for the reception from other villages and in the field of the guests, which all are volunteers and free.
Guests at the first day of the first instance by the master of ceremonies to the dead leader at home, condolences to family members, reflect upon the suffering souls, and then subject to the families of toast. Lunch time is up, the master of ceremonies will be at home with guests from the dead to start eating, drinking, until the people have to eat around the village household, drinking times.
Moso this feast we call flowing feast, first of all is to allow the monks invited to the first table to eat, then guests, then Lama, guests to eat again for a second, until the village, each household are eating. In each meal must be to eat a bowl of wine, must have a drink, or will appear on the owner's lack of respect. If there is a village 20 people, then one should eat 20 tons lunch.
After lunch there will be a Seba ceremony, a symbol worn by a dead horse clothing with other horses, was rushed to water's edge, from the dhaba, or lama to the horse from its sprinkler body shudder shiver, that the dead happy, and will protect future generations.
According to the traditional customs, practices invited lamas things more the more guests to attend the funeral for the deceased in terms of family and the whole village is very face-saving thing, so some Moso people holding such a funeral held at the a huge debt. The village will be prepared to house a large number of other food, wine and guest rooms.
After dinner, if the deceased was elderly and for natural death, the village will be exclusively in the courtyard of the deceased's home, held a traditional bonfire party, the villagers and guests will be jumping around a campfire holding hands rub dance (also known as Guozhuang dance), and sing "Funeral Song."
Jing-Tang, there are monks in the practice of things Daba chant the text in the grandmother's house, open for the deceased, the deceased recite scriptures family tree, told the deceased to which they belong generation, from the deceased's home gate began, according to the deceased ancestors of movement to the line, clearly read out each one fork in the road, every one river, every one village and finally to lead the souls to return to their ancestral places of origin.
Bonfire in the courtyard after the end of Daba exorcism ceremony was held, to attend the funeral of male guests can participate facelift. By pairs of men like to wear armor and a lot of bells hanging clothes, sword in hand, constantly shouting with his mouth, for the deceased open exorcism to remove obstacles.
Around 1:00 the next day, the deceased's family, men will be buried in the backyard of the deceased grandmother's house dug up in advance ready for release to the boxy coffin, the deceased's coffin reference to grandmother house shape, with a new cut pine Dacheng , M for the 19 level, female 17 layers, about one meter length width coffin, at the top of Wei Ren-shaped, painted red, green and blue bottles with the appearance of lotus flower, ram's horn flowers, conch, moon and stars, Pet Fishes and patterns, elegiac couplet To the Tibetan language, color, bright and beautiful scene. Coffin was carried to grandmother's house on the fireplace, and the coffin covered with colored women belt, until the morning around 6:00 (time calculated by the monks), with the sound of a huge three cannons coffin was lifted out the door of the yard at home must be lifted by two men, one women's high belt, coffin sedan chair carried by the village, able-bodied men leave for the cremation units designated by the lamas.
The entire group of people from the village for the elderly Shouzhi written: "Om Mani Padme Hong," the sixth five-colored streamer Shingon lead the way, while his mouth to recite the traditional Moso soul and family to send the old migratory routes. Another man was holding a horse and holding a torch soul together for the souls of their ancestors guide the search for the road.
Every family along the way door incense filled the air, chanting stretches aware of it, in a sound-off soon as the explosion, everyone standing in front of their own, face solemn, his mouth remembered scriptures, visual aids that coffin sedan a home, 1 every household to go through.
A good platform for building next to the cremation (cremation units per household, the village sent a young man came to the mountain pine cut made to jointly build) a predetermined Lama has been the location of their duties, in the early morning twilight for the deceased release souls from purgatory a.
Family and friends in front of it before the coming of the dawn of ashes of deceased loved ones will make the final Kubai, presiding over the monks gave the order, is responsible for the ignition of the monks raised their hands torches. In the spread of Buddhist chanting, in the sun, he jumped off the horizon of that moment, flames into the sky, and put into the lake of the first ray of sunshine interwoven, tangled in streamers, rose higher. . .
Author: chenxin2100
